How a Hacker News post turned into $1.8 million funding for PHP Fog (audio)

Anyone care to sum up what they have to say?

From the first few minutes:

He loved Heroku, but wondered why there wasn't anything similar for PHP. Posted a trial signup page at HN, got over 800 signups, which encouraged him to pursue the idea.

(I suspect this was the post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1414560 .)

Nice entreporn!

Well, he/she kind of got you there, Justin :)

I'm weeping. I had this idea around an year ago and I didn't do anything about it even though I kept thinking about it for around 2 months.

You have done what I couldn't do, congratulations :). I have signed up and hopefully I get to test the platform soon.

Best of luck.

Why not do something today, especially now that you know this idea is viable?

(Not being facetious, serious question.)

thank you for this reply. I didn't think about it like that, I think I was blinded by jealousy! I will do just that and see how things will go.

Good luck!

looks like orchestra.io (?) is doing something similar too - there looks to be room.